If you’ve only experienced french protests through international medias, you probably have a very skewed view of both the actual damage they create and their effectiveness.

That still doesn’t mean french cops are not also dangerous during protests. I’m not trying to say they’re more dangerous than your brown shirts, I’m saying that protesting also isn’t risk free in France, and claiming that french cops follow the rules is simply incorrect.

If you think french cops follow the manual I have a bridge to sell you

I couldn’t find any particular justification going through their website and other communication, it’s not perfect but it’s probably not that big a deal for an open source project to host their code there? If I remember I’ll try to send them a message asking about it

“I’m feeling lucky” or something like that?